The King’s City: A Comparative Study of Royal Patronage in Assur, Nineveh, and Babylon in the First Millennium BCE

Project Information

RoyalCities

Grant agreement ID: 749965

DOI 10.3030/749965

Project closed

EC signature date 15 March 2017

Start date 1 September 2018

End date 31 August 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 166 156,80

EU contribution € 166 156,80

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Austria

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (7)

“Everything Must Go: Consequences of State Construction and Control in the Levant for the Eanna (591-590 BCE)”

Author(s): Shana Zaia
Published in: Altorientalische Forschung, 2021, ISSN 2196-6761
Publisher: DeGruyter

“All That Glitters: The Ideology of Gold in the Neo-Assyrian Empire”

Author(s): Shana Zaia
Published in: Kaskal, 2019, ISSN 1971-8608
Publisher: Ca'Foscari University of Venice

Another attestation of Basiya, son of Ariḫ, a Judean Merchant in Sippar

Author(s): Shana Zaia
Published in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (NABU), 2019, ISSN 0989-5671
Publisher: Sepoa

Another Exemplar of Esarhaddon’s Uruk B Cylinder (NBC 2511)

Author(s): Shana Zaia
Published in: Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 2019, ISSN 0022-0256
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Kings, Priests, and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Period

Author(s): Shana Zaia
Published in: Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2019, ISSN 1569-2124
Publisher: Brill

“Destination Eanna: Cultic Assemblies Visiting Uruk During the Neo-Babylonian Period”

Author(s): Shana Zaia, Rosaura Cauchi
Published in: Akkadica, 2019, ISSN 1378-5087
Publisher: Assyriological Center Georges Dossin

“Let Praise of Aššur not be Forgotten: Temple Heterarchies and the Limits of Royal Patronage in the Neo-Assyrian Empire”

Author(s): Shana Zaia
Published in: Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2021, ISSN 1569-2124
Publisher: Brill

Book chapters (2)

“Divine Foundations: Religion and Assyrian Capital Cities”

Author(s): Shana Zaia
Published in: As Above, So Below, 2021
Publisher: Eisenbrauns-Pennsylvania State University Press

“Protecting the King in Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BCE: Perspectives from the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires”

Author(s): Shana Zaia
Published in: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World, 2022
Publisher: Brill

Conference proceedings (1)

“The Cosmic Front: War and its Impact on Religion in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 1000-610 BCE)”

Author(s): Shana Zaia
Published in: Religion and War from Antiquity to Early Modernity: Historical Variations across the Mediterranean, Near East, and Europe, 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic